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The FBI runs major risks of having its information systems infiltrated despite the agency's recent overhaul efforts, top FBI officials said Tuesday. After the capture of Robert Hanssen, who worked at the FBI for more than 20 years while spying for . . .
The speed at which critical national functions are being moved online increases the risk of vulnerability, say former CIA and NSA security experts in exclusive interviews with Computerworld. While cyberterrorism may not be an immediate threat, it would be foolish not to recognize that the U.S. is facing a "thinking enemy" who will adapt to attack our critical infrastructures and vulnerabilities. . .
Most large corporations and government agencies have been attacked by computer hackers, but more often and more frequently they do not inform authorities of the breaches, an FBI survey finds. . . .
A privacy rights group is turning to a federal court in hopes of forcing the U.S. Office of Homeland Security to divulge information behind proposals for a national identification system. The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) said it planned to . . .
The Defense Information Systems Agency last week announced plans to work with GRC International to develop a system to help detect, analyze and defend against cyberattacks across Defense Department networks. In a March 27 notice, DISA officials said the department needed . . .
Four U.S. government Web sites left the contents of internal databases open to Web surfers, French security experts revealed Thursday. Databases operated by the Commerce Department's STAT-USA/Internet service, as well as the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and the . . .
Update: Google has since restored the pages that were removed due to what some considered copyright infringement. Andreas Heldal-Lund, webmaster of www.xenu.net, got a DMCA notification letter from Google earlier today. In the letter, a long list of URLs were listed as infringing, and Google apparently complied with the DMCA request by removing them.. . .
The FBI is considering important changes to its premier cybersecurity unit, responsible for protecting the nation's most important computer networks, but indicated Wednesday it won't dismantle the unit as some in Congress and the Bush administration have feared. . . .
Government agencies have been ordered to clear their Web sites of sensitive information about weapons of mass destruction that could be exploited by would-be terrorists, according to memos released on Thursday. Critics said that White House Chief of Staff Andrew . . .
Alan Paller writes in the SANS digest, "The President's Critical Infrastructure Protection Board has released the first phase of the US National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace - a list of the key questions to be answered in the Strategy. By releasing the questions first, the Board hopes to encourage interested parties to suggest innovative and thoughtful answers to each of the questions.". . .
The Bush administration's new cybersecurity advisory board this summer will release a strategy for protecting the nation's network infrastructure, according to Howard Schmidt, vice chair of the President's Critical Infrastructure Protection Board, speaking at a Network World-sponsored roundtable broadcast over the Internet Monday.. . .
Rep. Tom Davis (R-Va.) introduced a bill March 6 that would update and extend the Government Information Security Reform Act, as members of Congress expressed concern over current legislation. Besides permanently reauthorizing GISRA, which is due to expire Nov. 29, Davis' . . .
Sparked by heightened security concerns since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the Defense Department has begun laying the groundwork to ban non-U.S. citizens from a wide range of computer projects. The planned policy--slated for adoption within 90 days--extends restrictions on . . .
Basically, the SSSCA seeks to enforce rigorous rights controls on all digital devices and their software -- to make it "unlawful to manufacture, import, offer to the public, provide or otherwise traffic in any interactive digital device that does not include" security systems earning Hollywood's approval. To really see this in the proper light, here's a quote from the draft legislation. . .
The governmentwide information security report released last month by the Office of Management and Budget is the first serious effort to bring together the executive and legislative branches to solve the monumental job of securing federal systems, which, admittedly, have as many holes as Swiss cheese.. . .
California gubernatorial candidate Bill Jones is back online after his Web-hosting service shut down his campaign Internet site in protest over a mass e-mail that some outraged recipients compared to spam. The campaign to elect Jones, California's secretary of state, involved . . .
Tackling one of the prime targets on a network for cyberattacks, the National Institute of Standards and Technology released a draft of its new guidance on securing public Web servers March 1. The draft special publication is intended for technical personnel, as it contains detailed guidance and checklists on how to configure the Web server itself. . .
The Russian company that created software to circumvent Adobe's e-book format argued on Monday that its conduct -- which caused the arrest and detainment of programmer Dmitri Sklyarov in a high-profile case last summer -- was not illegal. Elcomsoft, the Moscow-based software firm, claimed that because it offered the encryption-breaking software on the Internet, the company was not subject to U.S. copyright law.. . .
Hollywood and the makers of TVs, PCs and other electronics were told Thursday that they must resolve their differences over future copy protection technologies or Congress will. The parties have argued for several years over which should be responsible for preventing piracy of digitally distributed movies and other content.. . .
Spurred by worries about electronic terrorism and a dramatic increase in computer viruses and other Internet intrusions, the House Judiciary subcommittee on crime unanimously approved a bill that seeks to better coordinate efforts to fight cybercrime while increasing recommended sentences for . . .
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